BINTHA.— SPILOSOMA. 5 



BINTHA, IJ'alker. 



Bintha gracilis. (Plate XLII. fig. 3.) 

 Bintha gracilis, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. Siq^ph i. p. 127 (1804). 



Primaries above purplish brown ; a narrow longitudinal dash near the base, a second near 

 the middle of the costal area, and four of unequal length placed obliquely in pairs vipon the 

 disk stramineous ; base of costa bronzy green ; fringe testaceous internally and white externally, 

 with a brown intervening line : secondaries greyish hyaline, with opaline reflections ; a 

 moderately broad border and the veins smoky brown ; costal margin white : antennse steel- 

 blue; thorax bronzy green; abdomen purplish black, with bronzy green margins to the 

 segments ; tibiae and under surface of tarsi of posterior legs pearly white : under surface 

 paler ; pectus bright plumbaginous (colour of galena) ; venter greenish plumbaginous, with 

 lateral cream-coloured dots and anal tufts. Expanse of wings 11 lines. 



Japan {Fortune) ; Yokohama [Jonas). 



ARCTIID^E. 



PHISSAMA, Moore. 

 Phissama vacillans. (Plate XLII. fig. 4.) 

 Amphissa vacillans, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. iii. p. 685 (1855). 



Wings above pale greyish brown : primaries with white costal border ; three black dots 

 at the end of the cell and two on the disk : secondaries semihy aline excepting at the borders ; 

 the anal half of the fringe white : head and thorax white ; abdomen bright yellow, with lateral 

 and dorsal rows of black dots ; anal tufts white : under surface brown, with the venter sordid 

 white. Expanse of wings 1 inch 7 lines. 



Hong-Kong [Harrington) ; Sarawak [Wallace). 



If the species figured by Mr. Moore be a male, it is certainly distinct from A. vacillans; 

 it, however, looks more like a female in the figure. 



SPILOSOMA, Stephens. 



Spilosoma sangaica. (Plate XLII. fig. 5.) 



Spilosoma sangaica. Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. Sxippl. i. p. 294 (1864). 



White ; primaries with the basal two thirds dotted with ten black dots ; an oblique black 

 dash of almost confluent dots ; abdomen ochreous in the centre, with dorsal and lateral series 

 of black dots; palpi with black terminal joint ; coxse and femora of anterior legs ochreous, 

 knees black ; tibiae and tarsi brown below ; venter cream-coloured, with lateral series of black 



